Wednesday, October 9

Voodoo Mathematics

Bill Brown

We have been told since before his first race for the
presidency how exquisitely brilliant is Barack Obama.While I am not fully convinced (I say that
with tongue firmly in cheek) of our President’s genius status, I am definitely impressed
with the figures that his Administration’s mathematicians have put together
regarding the cost of Obamacare.

Genius is not a strong enough word to describe those who are
able to provideMUCH more coverage than
most of us have ever had or felt we needed to at least thirty million MORE
people who have not been able to afford insurance before.Yes, your insurance will include
contraceptive coverage—even if you are ninety years old and sex is only a
distant memory.Your wife may be
seventy-five years of age, but her coverage will include obstetric and
pediatric insurance, in the unlikely event that she should become pregnant.You never know, right?But you will get that extra coverage and so
much more for LESS money than your more minimal package cost you before
Obamacare! Isn’t that remarkable?How
often these days do you get so much more for so much less?

But you haven’t heard anything yet.Do you remember all those for whom the
Progressives used to shed crocodile tears—those with pre-existing conditions that made
them all but uninsurable; if they were able to find a company that would insure
them, the policy was prohibitively expensive?Well, rejoice!Those people will
now be insured, whether the insurance companies want to cover them or not.And the best news is—it won’t cost them any
more than your policy costs you—even if you are in the pink of health and have
never been sick a day in your life!And
of course, they get all this for LESS MONEY than your more minimal coverage
cost you under the old system! While the
insurance company that holds the policy of a person whose illnesses can be
depended upon to require treatments costing many hundreds of thousands of
dollars annually, the cost of their policy will never be more than $25 or $30 a
month; maybe slightly more, as Administration spokespersons explain it.

I’m waiting on these same geniuses to show life insurance
companies how they can insure a seventy-six year old overweight, chronically
tired old man who has endured six or seven surgeries, has high blood pressure
and HBP (prostate) and a number of other health issues for one million dollars coverage
for $25 a month.Don’t tell me it can’t
be done!If they can figure out how to
provide Obamacare to desperately ill people for the amount of money they claim
their insurance will cost, figuring the latter problem out will be a snap. It
wouldn’t be fair to lump me in with other old geezers with one foot in the
grave and the other foot on a banana peel.I want to be charged what that eighteen-year-old young man pays who is
playing football at an extremely high level because his conditioning and health
are perfect.It would be unfair to
charge me more for life insurance simply because I’m old and sick.

Any problem you want these brilliant people to solve for
you?You don’t doubt that they can do
it, do you?

If anything in this article is overstated, it might be because NOBODY knows what is in this monstrosity of a bill, and NOBODY knows how much it will cost. All I know is, it will cost a hell of a lot more than the Progressives have told you!